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Published in The Times of India by DwaipayanGhosh KOLKATA: This year turned out to be one of the worst for West Bengal as far as cases related to missing women and children are concerned. A central government report has identified Bengal with the highest number of cases where the victims...

PUBLISHED IN THE TIMES OF INDIA BY SOMREET BHATTACHARYA New Delhi: A 50-year-old woman was arrested by a joint team of Delhi Police, West Bengal Police and an NGO and four girls rescued from a house in GB Road of central Delhi on Sunday afternoon. The girls were trafficked to Delhi...

PUBLISHED IN THE STATESMAN The West Bengal CID team, that had been stationed in Delhi since last week, and was losing hope of finding a 21-year-old trafficking victim who had gone missing from her village in South 24 Parganas, with the help of SSP Ghaziabad (UP Police) and NGO Shakti Vahini,...

PUBLISHED IN THE TIMES OF INDIA NEW DELHI: Delhi Police crime branch has arrested a human trafficker, Pannalal Mahto, and his wife, who had been on the run since cops raided their house in north-west Delhi’s Shakurpur area and arrested Jharkhand ex-minister Yogender Saw. Mahto is accused of running several...

NEW DELHI: The tribal girl who was found hanging from a grille at her employer’s house in Faridabad five days ago was a schoolgoing teenager at a village in Uttar Dinajpur, West Bengal till about seven months ago. Her mother has alleged that she was not more than 13 years...

BY SAURAV ROY- PUBLISHED IN THE HINDUSTAN TIMES A 14-year-old girl, who was allegedly trafficked from a Jharkhand village to Delhi in order to work as a domestic help, was sexually assaulted by an auto driver. The girl was abandoned near MG Road metro station in Gurgaon on Sunday. The...

PUBLISHED IN THE HINDU A girl trafficked from a West Bengal village five years ago has been rescued by a joint team of the Delhi police, the Kolkata police and the members of NGO Shakti Vahini. The girl was a minor when she was brought to Delhi in the name...

AMBIKA PANDIT IN THE TIMES OF INDIA NEW DELHI: More than 4,500 sex workers live in the dingy lanes off Swami Shradhanand Marg in the national capital’s Chandni Chowk constituency. It’s one dark corner that politicians generally skip. But as campaigning reaches fever pitch for polling here on April 10...

PUBLISHED IN VOICE OF AMERICA Michael Lipin, Frances Alonzo January 16, 2014 WASHINGTON — Indian police announced that they have arrested two homeless men in connection with the alleged rape of a female Danish tourist in New Delhi, an incident that has drawn more criticism of India’s record of dealing with...

PUBLISHED IN EI SAMAY KOLKATTA Story of Lakshmi She is trying hard to rub off that thin red line from her forehead. It must disappear. It was not a marriage, but a forceful association for a few days. This was the first taste of freedom for this 20-year old Bengali...

India has by far the largest number of people living as slaves. The U.S. ranks 134th, with an estimated 60,000 people in bondage. By Mark Magnier and Robyn Dixon in the Los Angeles Times October 17, 2013, 3:45 p.m. NEW DELHI — When Savita Debnath was 14, two unknown men...

PUBLISHED IN THE HINDU A 13-year-old girl trafficked from Kakdwip area in the State’s South 24 Parganas district was allegedly raped by a 51-year-old man for over a month before she was rescued by a team of police and activists of non-government organisations earlier this week. “She is so young...

JAYASHREE NANDI IN TIMES OF INDIA NEW DELHI: Try as she might, Lalmani Nagesia (38) cannot stop crying. Seated at the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights office on Monday at the end of a long, hard journey from her tiny village in the Naxal-affected district, Lohardaga, she says...

JAYASHREE NANDI IN THE TIMES OF INDIA NEW DELHI: Last year on Eid, Hina (13) went missing from Nizamuddin Basti. This Eid too Hina’s parents may not meet their daughter. The police did not manage to trace her and neither was the complaint sent to the anti-human trafficking unit. On...

PUBLISHED IN THE HINDU Right outside the Kamla Market police post on Shraddhanand Marg is a board which displays photographs of women who are missing. They are mostly young girls for whom the police of various States have ostensibly been searching. The road, infamous as the red light area of...

THE HINDU A minor tribal Christian girl trafficked to Delhi from Jharkhand about a year ago and placed as a domestic help died under mysterious circumstances at her employer’s residence in neighbouring Ghaziabad about a fortnight ago. While the Jharkhand Police was not intimated about the incident, the victim’s body...

TIMES OF INDIA NEW DELHI: The recent report by United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has laid down several steps to check the trafficking menace in the capital. The recommendations talks about practices that can be put into place changes in the police force and the local administration....

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